What's Your Chess Personality?

There are 64 squares on a chessboard, and many more ways to play the game.

We all know the styles of the great world champions: Fischer's relentless accuracy, Petrosian's impregnable defense, Karpov's clean and positional chess, Kasparov's sheer domination, and Tal's wizard-like attacks. There are many more great champions, and many more great styles.

But what's your chess style? What's your own chess personality?

Chess.com created a quick quiz where you can find out which chess style and which great player suits you the best.

All you need is a few minutes to answer 20 easy chess questions and this quiz will tell you things about your chess game you might not even know yourself. Written by IM Davis Pruess and IM Daniel Rensch when they were Chess.com co-directors of content, the quiz is based on top-level chess analytics, making it both fun and accurate.

GM Hikaru Nakamura recently took the #ChessPersonality quiz to find out his own chess style. Would he get himself as an answer to the quiz, or has his game evolved since the quiz was written? Find out in the video below.

As you can see, Nakamura is no longer the unpredictable chess barbarian he once was. As he has risen as high as the number-two-rated player in the world, Nakamura and his chess game have become more technical and accurate.

Nakamura has come a long way from his days as a chess barbarian, when he played this crazy GM game with 2. Qh5?! in 2005.

Nakamura The Barbarian:

When he took the #ChessPersonality quiz in October 2015, Nakamura was classified as a technician, which was embodied by the great technical champion, Vladimir Kramnik.